This volume includes Hort's lectures at Cambridge in 1886 (Romans) and 1891 (Ephesians). Covering a broad range of textual, interpretative, and history of interpretation issues, the author's work is a model of judicious exegesis.

This volume identifies and investigates literary traditions and their implications for the authorship and dating of the Gospels and the letters of the New Testament. Ellis argues that the Gospels and the letters are products of the corporate authorship of four allied apostolic missions and not the creation of individual authors.